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Re: Local Mail

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On 1/19/14 6:16 PM, Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article <lbhc0r$7si$1@dont-email.me>,
> Because you 'don't remember' is the problem.  I keep track of changes I
> make to my system as I go and keep a system recovery document in a
> dropbox folder that outlines what I've added or changed to an existing
> system.

I went looking and I do have such a document.  It was in Downloads/_Unix 
and Reloads in a file called INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS.txt.
But that is the problem.  I use it so infrequently I have trouble 
remembering where it is, although Downloads ought to be pretty obvious!!

> A server is a process or machine that maintains it's own environment and
> data independent of other systems.  You run mail locally through a mail
> server which makes your system a server.

My apologies.  I tend to think of servers as an entire computer system 
rather than something like mail that is running on a single user computer.

Be that as it may, I still would like to simplify my life by minimizing 
the amount of non OS X stuff I am trying to do.  Granted, I use a lot of 
ksh and awk scripts and I hope that never goes away, but it is at the 
terminal level, not buried in the system.

One solution I picked up from Google was to put an external email 
address in a .forward file but that didn't work.  Bob@peirce-family.com 
produced an error message that said "(connect to 
mx.peirce-family.com[66.96.142.50]:25: Operation timed out)
                                          bob@peirce-family.com"
And I have no idea what to do about that.  I don't recognize the IP 
address, but I think port 25 is a standard port for smtp.

At least the present system is working.

> By running you own mail server, you become the mail admin for your box.
> Sounds like you don't want to do that.  Setup Goggle Mail to be the mail
> ISP for your domain.  That way you aren't troubled by any of the local
> mail server issues.
>

I know nothing about Google Mail.  I already send mail through 
peirce-family.com, which is hosted on an external hosting service, and 
verizon.net but I don't know how to route local mail through those 
paths, other than the above mentioned .forward file idea.

As is probably obvious I am not a trained system administrator.  I 
maintain my own computer as best I can but that means I run into things 
I don't know anything about.  Then I have to go to you guys for help.

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Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-19 11:35 -0500
  Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-19 11:40 -0500
  Re: Local Mail Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-19 11:50 -0800
    Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-19 15:19 -0500
      Re: Local Mail Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-19 15:16 -0800
        Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-20 18:35 -0500
          Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-21 10:42 -0500
            Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-21 11:07 -0500
              Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-21 12:02 -0500
            Re: Local Mail Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-22 02:25 -0800
              Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-22 10:24 -0500
                Re: Local Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:22 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-22 12:22 -0500
                Re: Local Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 18:33 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-22 14:40 -0500
                Re: Local Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 22:16 +0000
              Re: Local Mail billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-24 18:18 +0000
          Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-21 10:46 -0500
            Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-21 11:56 -0500
              Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-21 17:47 -0500
                Re: Local Mail billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-24 18:12 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-24 14:16 -0500
                Re: Local Mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-25 09:57 +0000
                Re: Local Mail billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-27 16:48 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-27 12:50 -0500
                Re: Local Mail billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-27 19:31 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-27 18:29 +0000
                Re: Local Mail billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-27 19:27 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-28 00:27 +0000
                Re: Local Mail billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-28 05:58 +0000
                Re: Local Mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-28 16:46 +0000
      Re: Local Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 23:58 +0000
        Re: Local Mail Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2014-01-20 19:07 -0500
    Re: Local Mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-19 21:26 +0000

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